travel day – jan 12
We were flying up to Portland to do a show as giant sand. There was a film festival there that was showing the Tucson music film “high and dry”, and this will be the second time we get invited to help tie the film together with a live performance.
But it serves also as a good idea to utilize the proximity of the danes here. And Portland is always a good idea. Last time we were there it was a year ago november, election night. The big sport screen tv illuminating the train wreck re-election. And also the night anders almost put his eye out opening a guiness beer bottle with his “slide”, which is how it usually gets done, but the guiness people now put an extra widgit of gas in every bottle. So the bottle cap fired up with a shot gun blast hitting himself right in the eye and throwing his head back like he just took in the wallup of a 12 gauge.
This time, the setting was much healthier. We stayed and played at the doug fir. They have a motel right there, and a good restaurant and a great venue downstairs. We got there the night before, to help eliminate another ‘hamburg’ scenario, and rested up. Took in the night with matt ward and scout niblett hanging. It was a perfect evening. Rain too, just for good luck.